Hi all, Having just subscribed to the list, I hope it's not considered too impolite to pose a question immediately. Firstly, by way of introduction: I'm by no means a Linux expert - in fact, compared to most people here I assume (and hope) I am pretty much a complete newbie. I've used Linux on and off for the past 4 years or so, but only recently devoted two of my home machines to Linux completely. One 800MHz G3 PPC (AmigaOne board) and one Laptop (generic 650MHz x86 Dell box). The PPC box is going great and not causing me any problems at all, but the laptop is being a bit of pain.
My home network is divided 50/50 into wired and wireless connections depending on the device and where in my home it is. The laptop, for obvious reasons, I want to go wireless. I've got a DWL-650 D-Link Wireless card in it, which I've verified works with a Win2k installation that's currently sharing drive space on there (until I get this wireless going under Linux) I really need a step by step guide for setting up wireless. The various Google searches I've done just serve to frustrate me even further. Its running Debian Woody - currently at stable, but will be happy enough to go to testing or unstable if that'll help (of course, doing so without net access from that machine could be a bit difficult...) To try to simplify matters before I asked for help, my wireless network is ad-hoc with WEP completely off. I'd like to turn WEP back on once I'm set up obviously, but just for initial setup, I thought it'd be prudent to leave it off. Not being a complete moron, I don't need a "type this", "type that" guide, just something to tell me what changes I may need to make to the kernel, what packages I should get my hands on and what configuration files are relevant... also if there's any nice frontend programs on X (Gnome preferred ;) ) that'll make life easier - all of this bearing in mind I don't have net access from it at all right now so anything I put on it will have to come from either the 7 set Debian Woody CDs or can be transferred via Floppy or CD from one of my desktops. Regards, Ben de Waal. -- "When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
